Toogs Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Anything there? Poor circumstances are forcing me to spend most of a week there. I'll get to Manhattan at least once and hopefully Flushing Chinatown, but I need to know what to do with myself the other nights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lydia R Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 I was in Yonkers in September and ate at Frank Pepe's and thought it was a chip off the original block. The food and decor are the same down to the crust and wainscot panelling. I thought it was a more relaxed visit than the New Haven original. Here's a snippet from an article published on October 29, 2009, by Julia Sexton, when the Yonkers location opened: The Frank Pepe Development Corporation is taking few chances. The Yonkers pizzaiolos will have completed a six- to 12-month apprenticeship dancing at the Wooster Street ovenmouth, learning through repitition the fiery behemoth’s hot and cool spots. (Cooking in a coal oven is an art, where everything from wind to ambient humidity affects the finished product.) Instead of a large single oven, the Yonkers space will hold two, whose combined 35,000-pound mass was built by the Frank Pepe Development Corporation as perfect copies of the original. The iron doors to the Yonkers ovens are cast from their New Haven ancestor, and even on the Yonkers sidewalk, you’ll find a New Haven man hole cover capping the coal chute. The idea of bringing in New Haven water for the dough has been bandied, but anyone who has ever tasted a New Haven tap will appreciate that CT-bottled Foxon Park birch beer and lemon-lime “gassosa,” among others, are available for drinking. There's also Stew Leonard's the huge grocery store with anamatronic mascots. Just don't go on a weekend. Here are a couple of photos from their website of in-store options: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toogs Posted February 16, 2011 Author Share Posted February 16, 2011 Sounds great, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toogs Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 Thanks again. I went to Stew Leonard's today just to check it out. It's like the PA Dutch Market meets Wegman's meets Chucky Cheese, on an acid trip (or after a sleepless night and a lot of coffee this morning). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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